Posts Tagged ‘sunset

A busy day ended in a spectacular sunset. Lucky for me, as I hadn’t had any time for photos earlier. The red lines were almost like neon lights!

I’ve been expecting to see northern lights one night. There have been articles in the press that this year, we might see them even here in the south. Usually you only see them up in Lapland. The colours here are not the northern lights, but they reminded me of them. Will have to stay up and keep my eyes open on clear nights!

Striking sunset tonight. The sun like a fireball falling through the blanket of clouds, colouring the sky in warm hues of orange, red and brown.

Somehow the scene looks religious, or a rather stereotypical romantic backdrop to type a twee poem on. Yet, it was what I witnessed with my own eyes, very real, and captivating. A good ending for a good day.

And best of all – this picture was taken at 8.30 pm, and the sun was still quite high – the clouds misleadingly look like the horizon.

Under ordinary circumstances, this would be a lovely, warm picture of the setting sun in the horizon. Yet, tonight, following the terrible news from across the globe, I see in it an ominous threat of radiation, explosions and fire.

Beautiful warm colours by the riverside as the sun was starting to set, especially on the reddish brown masts of the sailing boat. This scene managed to make me forget the cold for a while. The best thing about this picture, though, is that it was taken at 5pm. We already have 9 hrs 40 mins of daylight!

The first week of school has been so hectic, and I have been so shaken out of any routine that I have only managed to think about my photos in the evening.

This evening I climbed up to the rocks behind our house to wait for the sunset, hoping for some unusual colours at least. It wasn’t spectacular, but still pretty. With the sun, another day and the first working week disappeared behind the horizon. Good night world!

Part of today’s forecast:
The sun rises at 4:50 am and sets at 22:06, the length of the day is 17h 16 mins.

This picture was taken at traffic lights, through my car side mirror at around 21:45. With the heatwave we are suddenly experiencing, the town had gone wildly mad with partying people everywhere – and, sadly, more and more police cars, too. The northern nightless nights are something else…